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Reconstructing a map of neuronal connectivity is a critical challenge in contemporary neuroscience. Recent advances in high-throughput serial section electron microscopy (EM) have produced massive 3D image volumes of nanoscale brain tissue…

The throughput of electron microscopes has increased significantly in recent years, enabling detailed analysis of cell morphology and ultrastructure. Analysis of neural circuits at single-synapse resolution remains the flagship target of…

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In the field of connectomics, neuroscientists seek to identify cortical connectivity comprehensively. Neuronal boundary detection from the Electron Microscopy (EM) images is often done to assist the automatic reconstruction of neuronal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Wei Shen , Bin Wang , Yuan Jiang , Yan Wang , Alan Yuille

If we are ever to unravel the mysteries of brain function at its most fundamental level, we will need a precise understanding of how its component neurons connect to each other. Electron Microscopes (EM) can now provide the nanometer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-28 Pascal Fua , Graham Knott

A central problem in neuroscience is reconstructing neuronal circuits on the synapse level. Due to a wide range of scales in brain architecture such reconstruction requires imaging that is both high-resolution and high-throughput. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-10-03 Tao Hu , Juan Nunez-Iglesias , Shiv Vitaladevuni , Lou Scheffer , Shan Xu , Mehdi Bolorizadeh , Harald Hess , Richard Fetter , Dmitri Chklovskii

Segmentation of nanoscale electron microscopy (EM) images is crucial but still challenging in connectomics research. One reason for this is that none of the existing segmentation methods are error-free, so they require proofreading, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Khoa Tuan Nguyen , Ganghee Jang , Tran Anh Tuan , Won-ki Jeong

Electron microscopy (EM) enables the reconstruction of neural circuits at the level of individual synapses, which has been transformative for scientific discoveries. However, due to the complex morphology, an accurate reconstruction of…

Synaptic connectivity detection is a critical task for neural reconstruction from Electron Microscopy (EM) data. Most of the existing algorithms for synapse detection do not identify the cleft location and direction of connectivity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Toufiq Parag , Daniel Berger , Lee Kamentsky , Benedikt Staffler , Donglai Wei , Moritz Helmstaedter , Jeff W. Lichtman , Hanspeter Pfister

Developing automated and semi-automated solutions for reconstructing wiring diagrams of the brain from electron micrographs is important for advancing the field of connectomics. While the ultimate goal is to generate a graph of neuron…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-09 William Gray Roncal , Colin Lea , Akira Baruah , Gregory D. Hager

Mammalian whole-brain connectomes are a foundational ingredient for holistic understanding of brains. Indeed, imaging connectomes at sufficient resolution to densely reconstruct cellular morphology and synapses represents a longstanding…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-02-03 Logan Thrasher Collins , Todd Huffman , Randal Koene

Automated and semi-automated techniques in biomedical electron microscopy (EM) enable the acquisition of large datasets at a high rate. Segmentation methods are therefore essential to analyze and interpret these large volumes of data, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Anusha Aswath , Ahmad Alsahaf , Ben N. G. Giepmans , George Azzopardi

Connectomics aims to recover a complete set of synaptic connections within a dataset imaged by volume electron microscopy. Many systems have been proposed for locating synapses, and recent research has included a way to identify the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Nicholas Turner , Kisuk Lee , Ran Lu , Jingpeng Wu , Dodam Ih , H. Sebastian Seung

Morphology based analysis of cell types has been an area of great interest to the neuroscience community for several decades. Recently, high resolution electron microscopy (EM) datasets of the mouse brain have opened up opportunities for…

Neuron segmentation from electron microscopy (EM) volumes is crucial for understanding brain circuits, yet the complex neuronal structures in high-resolution EM images present significant challenges. EM data exhibits unique characteristics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Yinda Chen , Haoyuan Shi , Xiaoyu Liu , Te Shi , Ruobing Zhang , Dong Liu , Zhiwei Xiong , Feng Wu

The prospect of neural reconstruction from Electron Microscopy (EM) images has been elucidated by the automatic segmentation algorithms. Although segmentation algorithms eliminate the necessity of tracing the neurons by hand, significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-29 Toufiq Parag

The field of connectomics has recently produced neuron wiring diagrams from relatively large brain regions from multiple animals. Most of these neural reconstructions were computed from isotropic (e.g., FIBSEM) or near isotropic (e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-06 Toufiq Parag , Fabian Tschopp , William Grisaitis , Srinivas C Turaga , Xuewen Zhang , Brian Matejek , Lee Kamentsky , Jeff W. Lichtman , Hanspeter Pfister

High resolution volumetric neuroimaging datasets from electron microscopy (EM) and x-ray micro and holographic-nano tomography (XRM/XHN) are being generated at an increasing rate and by a growing number of research teams. These datasets are…

Contextualised word embeddings is a powerful tool to detect contextual synonyms. However, most of the current state-of-the-art (SOTA) deep learning concept extraction methods remain supervised and underexploit the potential of the context.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Jingqing Zhang , Luis Bolanos , Tong Li , Ashwani Tanwar , Guilherme Freire , Xian Yang , Julia Ive , Vibhor Gupta , Yike Guo

Neural connectomics has begun producing massive amounts of data, necessitating new analysis methods to discover the biological and computational structure. It has long been assumed that discovering neuron types and their relation to…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2014-07-17 Eric Jonas , Konrad Kording

Detecting synaptic clefts is a crucial step to investigate the biological function of synapses. The volume electron microscopy (EM) allows the identification of synaptic clefts by photoing EM images with high resolution and fine details.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Yi Liu , Shuiwang Ji